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	A Delegation from Baden-Wurttemberg of Germany Visits Konkuk
	관리자		3754		2013.05.29

On 28 May 2013, a delegation from the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany visited Konkuk.  A 50-strong delegation composed of representatives from the state government, and those from the universities and companies in the state met with President Song Hee-young of Konkuk and toured the Konkuk University Fraunhofer ISE Next Generation Solar Cell Research Center (KFnSC).
The delegates and President Song discussed ways to expand collaboration in research on the development of renewable energy sources including solar cells, and agreed to build on the success of KFnSC.
In May 2009, with financial support from the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Konkuk opened KFnSC, as a joint research center on solar cell research with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), the worldwide leader in this area.  Baden-Württemberg is home to Fraunhofer ISE.  KFnSC is the first joint research center the ISE has established in Asia and the second one in the world after its collaboration with MIT in the U.S.
The delegates included Mr. Winfried Kretschmann, a member of the <a title="Alliance '90/The Greens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_%2790/The_Greens">Green Party of Germany</a> and <a title="Minister-President" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister-President">Minister-President</a> of <a title="Baden-Württemberg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg">Baden-Württemberg</a>, Ms. Theresia Bauer, State Minister of Science, Research and Art of <a title="Baden-Württemberg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg">Baden-Württemberg</a>, Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tübingen, Dr. Eicke R. Weber, Director of Fraunhofer ISE, and representatives of the companies operating in the state.
Baden-Württemberg is the third largest of the country’s sixteen states in terms of both area and population. 
<img width="640" src="ArticleFile.do?id=5371289" /> Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tübingen <img width="640" src="ArticleFile.do?id=5371290" />  Prof. Dr. Winfried Lieber, Rector of the Offenburg University for Applied Science, Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tübingen, Dr. Mirja Feldmann, Public Prosecutor at the Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector of the state BW, and Prof. Dr. Im Chan, Director of KFnSC (From left) <img width="640" src="ArticleFile.do?id=5371291" /> Dr. Ahn Nam-sung, President of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning, Prof. Dr. Pahk Heui-jae, President of the Office of Strategic R&D Planning, Konkuk President Song Hee-young, Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tübingen, Mr. Kim Sang-bum, Vice-Mayor for Administrative Affairs of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Prof. Dr. Winfried Lieber,  Rector of the Offenburg University for Applied Science, and Prof. Dr. Im Chan, Director of KFnSC (From left)
 
 
Posted by Suh Young-jin

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